Tuesday, December 31, 2013

felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: a Vergilian title for a blog which will contain ideas new and old

The English translation of this title is, "Happy is he who has been able to recognize the causes of things." Ordinarily,  I might consider changing the "qui" ("he") to "quae" ("she") to denote my own gender, but I have decided to leave the Vergilian original unchanged for several reasons, including homage to Vergil and the idea of leaving the title generic.
This photograph was taken in July of 2008 between Cabot and Montpelier, Vermont.